Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-18
Report OF President Jerauld County
w. G. T. U.

CONTINUED From LAST WEEK.
The women Of America are not per-
mitted to breathe upon the laws that
SO powerfully affect the veal or VOC of
their families. The key to the whole
situation is the ballot.
When the hundreds of thousands of
Christian women Of America shall rise
up from their knees and 60 forth to
vote as they pray, think you the home
will be forgotten?
Think you the saloon will long live
to menace the home? Think you the
little daughters will be forgotten?
Jerauld Co. W. c. 7. U. is proud to
claim IS Co.'Supt. of Franchise, Mrs. L
H Blank, who uses pen and voice for
the advancement @: female suffrage.
One public" franchise meeting has
been held, addressed by Mrs. Harden
and Ars. Blank. Suffrage literature
has been distributed through the coun-
ty.
Jersuld Go. W. G. I. Z. has nine
unions, and vice-presidents in thirteen
townships. and nineteen %superinten-
dents.
Nine Bands of Hope organized. ,
have presided at thirteen public meet
ings, besides a three days camp mset-
ing.
Have held seven executive meetings,
have written 100 letters and 1876 postals,
have Travelled 3O4 miles besides trip to
Territorial Convention at Chamberlain,
all of which was at my own expense,
have distributed literature to the
amount Of $3.50.
Although as an organization we are
not rich in this worlds goods, yet we
have enlarged our borders in the line
of charity, and sent three dollars to the
National Temperance Hospital at Chi
cage, managed entirely by women, and
the only hospital in the world except
one in London, where diseases of all
kinds are treated without the aid of
alcoholic stimulants. That such = thing
is possible. and successful has been
fully demonstrated by the above named
hospital. Three Unions in the county
have also pledged q comfort or quilt
from each for tho Dakota room in this
hospital, which room is a pleasant front
one. Donations have rolled in rapidly
from all owe the territory for. the ex-
penses of this room.
would suggest that the Unions in
our county make every effort to fulfill
the promise they have given and soon
forward their donations.
l would also urge the necessity of
wearing the white ribbon at all times
and places, At home and abroad. Men
who are struggling to overcome the
drink habit are strengthened in their
resolutions of reformation by the sight
Of the mystic tic that speaks volumes,
Of = sacred comradeship, of a tie that
binds US in the best of bonds.
A friend who was attempting to re-
form felt his courage renewed when l
wrote him that he would meet warm
friends and christian sympathy and en-
couragement in the city which was
hencsforth to be his home. BE searched
diligently among the hurrying crowd
for a sight of the futtering white rib
bon he had learned to prize, only to be
repeatedly disappointed. IIa wrote me
that I must be mistaken, as he found
no white ribbon women in his new
home, when l know Of tho manifold
good works of their Union, but they
hid their light under . bushel.' 1t
would have been . strange sight in the
late wal to have seen only a few OIL
GERS in the Federal Army wearing the
blue, and | imagine q queer combina.
ton of events would have been the re-
suit. Show your colors and live true
to them and half the battle is won.
Ny comrades, u county organlza'
tion is in its infancy, and a grand fu'
ture is in store il we each do our ut.
most.
Already our influence in the polite,
of our county is acknowledged even by
our enemies. Shall not our work il
the future be such that we may extend
and widen our influence?
Although we feel so feeble, bear il
mind that we belong to An organization
that is benifeent, wise, powerful, anc
with q mission to scatter blessings ev
erywhere; searching among the laws
that govern our country and pleading
for protection for helpless children; nc
home so poor but it can enter therein
no prison so dark but it brings a light
no heart SO lonely but It brings a cheer
1t is no respecter Of persons. 1t has
leveled the church fences, and done
away with musty creeds, substituting
for them the Christly messages, Glove
thy neighbor as myself 'M.lice to.
ward none and Charity for ALL" and
"Not willing that any should perish
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